Utilization of phenoxyacetic acid, by strains using either the ortho or meta cleavage of catechol during phenol degradation, after conjugal transfer of tfdA, the gene encoding a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 207-214

  Radnoti De Lipthay, J ^a,c   Barkay, T ^a,d   Vekova, J ^b   Sorensen S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BENZOIC ACID; CATECHOL; CATECHOL 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; MUCONIC ACID; OXYGENASE; PHENOL; PHENOXYACETIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; REGULATOR GENE; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0032986594     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530051383     Document Type: Article

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